Cato Institute Book Event: "Iran and the Bomb"

Event Title:
"Iran and the Bomb: The United States, Iran, and the Nuclear Question"

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Event Description:
As the Iran war continues, questions surrounding the country’s nuclear program remain. Sina Azodi’s book, Iran and The Bomb: The United States, Iran, and the Nuclear Question (2026), traces the evolution of Iran’s nuclear ambitions and strategy in the broader context of its relationship with the United States. The book argues that because the strategic logic behind Iran’s nuclear program transcends the nature of its regime, dismantling the Iranian nuclear program is not a viable policy option for the United States. Instead, the US must learn to live with a nuclear threshold state while working to keep Iran as far away from the bomb as possible. Ariel (Eli) Levite, an expert on nuclear proliferation and the former principal deputy director general for policy at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission, will offer comments.

About the Speakers:
* Sina Azodi is a political scientist and an Assistant Professor of Middle East Politics at George Washington University, as well as a former nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council and a former research assistant at Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He holds a PhD in International Affairs from the University of South Florida
* Ariel (Eli) Levite is a Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program and Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has a PhD in Political Science from Cornell University, and has taught courses on security studies & political science at Tel Aviv University, Cornell, and UC Davis.
* Justin Logan is the Director of Defense and Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute. He holds a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Chicago.

About the Cato Institute:
Founded in 1976, the Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. The institute advocates for free market economic policies, protection of civil liberties, criminal justice reform, and a non-interventionist foreign policy. It publishes the annual "Human Freedom Index" that ranks countries based on their levels of personal & economic freedoms, and it hosts cross-partisan discussions monthly at "Cato Unbound". To learn more, go to https://www.cato.org/about

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